The constantly changing menu at Chef Dan Fox's cozy and elegant restaurant draws from local, carefully sourced, seasonal foods. The menu is heavily tilted toward sharing, due both to the first courses' overall heaviness and the generously sized portions. In keeping with chef Fox's reputation as a pork connoisseur, meat eaters will find lots to love; look for the pork schnitzel. For dessert, hope for gianduja chocolate tart. $10-$35.

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Dan Fox's Heritage Tavern is far and away Madison's most anticipated restaurant opening this year. Fox -- late of the Madison Club, Chicago's celebrated Everest and local pork celebration SloPig -- piqued Madison diners' anticipation with his headlong devotion to local ingredients, including his self-raised heritage-breed pigs. With a pedigreed young chef, a storied location and all the local press a restaurateur could hope for, the one remaining question is, does Heritage live up to its hype?